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2018-03-20T01:49:13.000000000+00:00
The chief of police in Tempe, Arizona, where an Uber self-driving car just hit and killed a pedestrian, has told the San Francisco Chronicle that "I suspect preliminarily it appears that the Uber would likely not be at fault in this accident."

2018-03-20T01:18:05.000000000+00:00
Biotech, robotics, and fintech startups took the spotlight today at prestigious accelerator Y Combinator’s 26th Demo Day. This batch features 141 total companies from 23 countries, with presentations spread over two days. The house was packed at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum with wealth...

2018-03-20T01:10:54.000000000+00:00
Today marks the kickoff of Amazon’s annual semi-secret MARS Conference in Palm Springs, which means two things. No, you weren’t invited. The start of several days of pictures featuring Jeff Bezos palling around with his best robot friends. Last year the ‘bot loving billionaire wowed the internet ...

2018-03-20T01:06:16.000000000+00:00
Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Cambridge Analytica. In a post on (what else) Facebook, Andrew "Boz" Bosworth gave variations on the ...

2018-03-20T00:37:19.000000000+00:00
It’s not every day that Oracle’s billionaire founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches a new business, but such is the case today. That new company? Sensei, a new L.A.-based wellness brand that will focus first on developing hydroponic farms and later . . . well, details are scant, but the...

2018-03-20T00:02:33.000000000+00:00
It looks like someone found a practical use case for AR that’s not about trying on makeup or catching Pokémon. Ebay today introduced a new AR-powered feature that helps sellers figure out the best box to use for shipping their items to buyers. The technology works with a range of products, the co...

2018-03-20T00:00:56.000000000+00:00
Color is looking to add a new test to its line of genetic testing, this time focusing on hereditary factors that may affect a person’s chance for being prone to cardiovascular complications like arrhythmia and cardiomyopathy. Called the hereditary heart health test, Color’s new test looks to isol...

2018-03-19T23:18:19.000000000+00:00
While it sometimes feels like everyone has a podcast nowadays, the truth is that most Americans still don’t listen to podcasts regularly. The Y Combinator-backed team behind The Podcast App is planning to change that. And yes, that’s the app’s real name. Co-founder and CEO Martín Siniawski argued...

2018-03-19T22:59:05.000000000+00:00
Facebook’s latest public controversy may have claimed its first major casualty. According to reporting from The New York Times, the social media giant is poised to part ways with its high-profile chief security officer, Alex Stamos. That story suggests that Stamos created friction within Facebook...

2018-03-19T22:28:40.000000000+00:00
During CES, the single piece of electronics I spent the most time with, apart from my laptop and camera, was a Mattel Dungeons &amp; Dragons Computer Fantasy Game handheld. These cheap handhelds, sold as impulse buys at drug stores and Toys 'R Us (RIP), are the latest thing to be collected and em...